*Pre-Fab Hearts by The Reels was a single for Polygram in 1979 and it was the follow up to their debut single. So Quasimodo's Dream was 2 years after that and their 2nd LP, with Beautifull being the 3rd. Right!
**Alan Lamb was the experimental telephone wires guy and had this record Primal Image. There might be another one but I don't have that.
***Wasn't there a cricketer called Alan Lamb in the 80s?
****Thought I'd mention Ariel Pink again just to say that perhaps Mature Themes is better than Before Today, just maybe.
*****Probably the last issue of Smash Hits I ever bought was this one with Michael Hutchence on the cover and it was a special on the filming of Dogs In Space. Anyway I remember there was a little article on the little bands scene. Then thought 'what there's more people like The Primitive Calculators? That's fucking mental!!' Suffice to say first time I ever heard of Too Fat To Fit Through The Door and Thrush & The Cunts. The later turning up in the movie singing diseases. This was in Smash Hits. I wish I still had that copy, I remember holding onto it for a while. It didn't end up in the incinerator with the rest of The Countdowns & Smash Hits. Although some articles were removed before their fiery death only to die somewhere else later on.
******How about incinerators and that we used to just burn everything!
******* "a rats toss bag" was a Malcolm Blight tongue.